The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The President is also the leader of the executive branch and the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. The President is indirectly elected by the people to a four year term through the Electoral College. The 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, prevents any person elected to the Presidency from serving more than two full terms.
| # | Portrait | Name | Term Length | Party | Vice-President(s) |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | none | John Adams |
| 2 | 
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John Adams | 1797-1801 | Federalist | Thomas Jefferson |
| 3 | 
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Democratic-Republican | Aaron Burr (1801-1805) George Clinton (1805-1809) |
| 4 | 
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James Madison | 1809-1817 | Democratic-Republican | George Clinton (1809-1812) Elbridge Gerry (1813-1814) |
| 5 | 
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Democratic-Republican | Daniel D. Tompkins |
| 6 | 
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John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Democratic-Republican | John C. Calhoun |
| 7 | 
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Democratic | John C. Calhoun (1829-1833) Martin Van Buren (1833-1837) |
| 8 | 
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Martin Van Buren | 1837-1841 | Democratic | Richard M. Johnson |
| 9 | 
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William Henry Harrison | 1841 (died in office) |
Whig | John Tyler |
| 10 | 
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John Tyler | 1841-1845 | Whig | none; Vacant |
| 11 | 
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James K. Polk | 1845-1849 | Democratic | George M. Dallas |
| 12 | 
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Zachary Taylor | 1849-1850 (died in office) |
Whig | Millard Fillmore |
| 13 | 
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Millard Fillmore | 1850-1853 | Whig | none; Vacant |
| 14 | 
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Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | Democratic | William R. King (1853) |
| 15 | 
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James Buchanan | 1857-1861 | Democratic | John C. Breckinridge |
| 16 | 
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Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1869 | Republican | Hannibal Hamlin |
| 17 | 
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Ulysses S. Grant | 1869-1877 | Republican | Henry Wilson |
| 18 | 
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James G. Blaine | 1877-1885 | Republican | John A. Logan (1877-1881) Robert Todd Lincoln (1881-1885) |
| 19 | 
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Grover Cleveland | 1885-1893 | Democratic | Thomas A. Hendricks (1885-89) Adlai E. Stevenson I (1889-1893) |
| 20 | 
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David B. Hill | 1893-1897 | Democratic | Horace Boies |
| 21 | 
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William McKinley | 1897-1903 (died in office) |
Republican | Garret Hobart (1897-99) None; Vacant (1899-1901) Theodore Roosevelt (1901-03) |
| 22 | 
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Theodore Roosevelt | 1903-1909 | Republican | Charles W. Fairbanks (1905-1909) |
| 23 | 
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William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | Republican | James S. Sherman (1909-1912) None; Vacant (1912-13) |
| 24 | 
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Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1917 | Democratic | Thomas R. Marshall |
| 25 | 
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Charles E. Hughes | 1917-1925 | Republican | Charles W. Fairbanks (1917-18) None; Vacant (1918-1921) Leonard Wood (1921-25) |
| 26 | 
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Abraham Lincoln II | 1925-1933 | Republican | William S. Kenyon (1925-29) Calvin Coolidge (1929-1933) |
| 27 | 
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John N. Garner | 1933-1941 | Democratic | Henry A. Wallace |
| 28 | 
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Abraham Lincoln II | 1941-1949 | Republican | Thomas E. Dewey |
| 29 | 
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Adlai E. Stevenson | 1949-1953 | Democratic | John Sparkman |
| 30 | 
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Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Republican | Richard Nixon |
| 31 | 
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Richard M. Nixon | 1961-1969 | Republican | Henry C. Lodge |
| 32 | 
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Robert F. Kennedy | 1969-1977 | Democratic | George Smathers |
| 33 | 
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Jerry Brown | 1977-1981 | Democratic | Mo Udall |
| 34 | 
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Republican | George Bush |
| 35 | 
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George Bush | 1989-1997 | Republican | Elizabeth Dole |
| 36 | 
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Al Gore | 1997-present | Democratic | Mario Cuomo |